As the police raid on daily Zaman and Samanyolu TV attracts more criticism from the European and U.S. capitals, the Gülen movement’s cohabitation with the Justice and Development Party (AKP) governments (or vice versa) shows an impressive balance.

In December 2013, thousands protested corruption and Erdogan’s government in Istanbul. A banner with Fethullah Gulen and PM Erdogan’s pictures reads “one is no better than the other.” Fulya Atalay for Demotix, image no. 3553279.

nytimes.com – Ceylan Yeginsu – Dec 16 – ISTANBUL — When Semra dropped off her 13-year-old daughter for the first day of high school, she had to fight back tears as she entered the dimly lit basement classroom, brightened by the red of the girls’ head scarves and the walls

Expert Comment (The Elcano Royal Institute) 69/2014, 17 December 2014 Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos William Chislett * The arrest of Turkish journalists, media executives and even the scriptwriter of a popular television series, ostensibly for ‘forming, leading and being a member of an armed terrorist organisation’, brought a swift rebuke from […]